[DUG] [computing] ]XE2 string conversion notes

[Alister Christie]

Marco Cantu also has much to say in his D2009 book, about 100 pages on 
Unicode.

Alister Christie
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On 20/01/2012 5:20 p.m., Peter Ingham wrote:
> There are several other things to be aware of.
>
> Code using Move, FillChar or pointers into strings (PChars)&  the like
> needs to be checked with care.  Move (s[1], x, Length(s)) won't work as
> expected.
>
> Array [xx] of BYTE and Array [xx] of Char are no longer equivalent -
> I've found many cases where code assumed they are.
>
> FillChar under D2009+ is badly misnamed as it really does a FillByte.
>
>
> Truely correct handling of Unicode involves more than just assuming
> Characters are now 2 Bytes and strings are arrays of Chars (Issue of
> Codepoints vs Displayable characters).
>
> Bob Swart has good coverage of Unicode conversions in chapter 6 of his
> e-Book "Delphi 2009 Development Essentials'&  I know Cary Jensen has
> also produced material on the topic.
>
> Regards
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